From Cali- Entry #20

From Cali- Entry #20: The 500-meter heats, quarter, and semi-finals took place today under hot Colombian weather. The finals are decided and will be contested tonight. The 500-meter world champions will be crowned!

Before I go on to share some of the pictures from the morning session, I'd like to put up my two videos from last night; the first video is of the 10km points races and the 2nd video is of the 200-meter finals. You can also view them below-




Junior men watching the first junior men 500-heat about to go off

Television is all over this worlds- or this worlds is all over television

Alex D'mello in his 500-meter heat

My 500-meter heat

Mexico in the stands

Canada in the stands

The main stands, understand?

An official

Being interviewed on TelePacifico

Junior men 500-meter quarter final

Senior men 500-meter quarter final

Senior men 500-meter quarter final

Junior women 500-meter semi-final

Junior women 500-meter semi-final

Junior women 500-meter semi-final

Senior women 500-meter semi-final

Alex D'mello

Morgane Echardour and Mister Taylor sword fighting with plastic bottles

Senior men 500-meter semi-final #1

Senior men 500-meter semi-final #2- the Colombia is about to ram into the 2nd place Italian skater and get DQ'ed

Stretching

Senior men 500-meter semi-final #2- after a few false starts and other delays..